Museums: Filigrees & Forgings

The summer's rush of tourists began to flood
into Paris last week, attracted always by its reputation for high
style, fine restaurants and magnificent art collections. But as any
seasoned traveler knows, there is more to France than just Paris. And
already Francophiles were circling on their maps those little-known,
remote museums that, as the Guide Michelin says of its top restaurants,
are "well worth the trip."

Traditionalists were planning stopovers at the Musée Ingres in the
Gascon town of Montauban, or the Musée Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in
Albi.

Modernists will make a beeline for the Maeght Foundation in sunny
St.-Paul-de-Vence,...